amnesiac
"amnesiac" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amnesiac” is uncommon English (frequency #64,177 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,177
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia).
Corpus desk
Index EN-amnesiac · amnesiac · English
amnesiac · rank #64,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,177
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ambiguously
Nearest frequency peer: ambiguously (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “amnesiac”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alga
alga
35,828 corpus weight
- Altai
Altai
35,826 corpus weight
- ambiguously
ambiguously
35,825 corpus weight
- amnesiac
amnesiac
35,824 corpus weight
- Andronicus
Andronicus
35,823 corpus weight
- antic
antic
35,822 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “amnesiac” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amnesiac |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “amnesiac” in English
Rare enough to double-check
amnesiac is uncommon English at frequency #64,177 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia).".
Zero misspellings are on record for amnesiac in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From amnesia + -ac. The correct English form is amnesiac, spelled A-M-N-E-S-I-A-C.
Definition
- 1Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia).
Etymology
From amnesia + -ac.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).